Difference between color phase black bears and brown bears?

[FurFishGame]

How do you tell the difference between a cinnamon color black bear and a small brown/grizz?

[HuntNphotos]

If there was any question I would not shoot, but the cinnamon's I have seen were pretty easy to tell. Lack of hump, face shape, claws, etc.

[Akres]

A cinnamon with have the physical characteristics of a common Black Bear.
A small grizzly will have the physical characteristics of a Common Brown Bear...Usually have a light colored ring of hair around their necks as well.

[Jeff Shannon]

How do you tell the difference between a cinnamon color black bear and a small brown/grizz?

This online test from MT FWP should help you...

http://fwp.mt.gov/education/hunter/bearID/default.html

[muskeg]

It sometimes can be very difficult and there have been several Cinnamons taken in the Misty's mistaken as Brown Bear and one Brown Bear taken (that I know of) on Rivilla Island as a Black Bear.

Take a guess !!!!!

[Dr.No]

This online test from MT FWP should help you...

http://fwp.mt.gov/education/hunter/bearID/default.html

You gotta watch that test...they switch around the yes/no answer positions, lol...

[Gary]

It sometimes can be very difficult and there have been several Cinnamons taken in the Misty's mistaken as Brown Bear and one Brown Bear taken (that I know of) on Rivilla Island as a Black Bear.

Take a guess !!!!!

GUESSING - brown bear, but I wouldn't take a shot if this was the only glimpse I had of it. I "think" i can see the hump (not 100% sure).

[dreamerofdreams]

GUESSING - brown bear, but I wouldn't take a shot if this was the only glimpse I had of it. I "think" i can see the hump (not 100% sure).

Face might not be quite right though... I agree this is a no-shoot until you can see more clearly!

[FurFishGame]

It sometimes can be very difficult and there have been several Cinnamons taken in the Misty's mistaken as Brown Bear and one Brown Bear taken (that I know of) on Rivilla Island as a Black Bear.

Take a guess !!!!!

I wouldn't soot it as a blackie, It looks to have a hump, its nose isn't "straight" from what I see, The ears look small and short. It looks really "big" to be a black, too, not so much its over all size, but it looks to have alotta belly and to big of shoulders for a black. I am by no means an expert, but it seems like the blacks I have seen, they have smaller shoulders.

[stid2677]

That looks like a TOAD of a Cinnamon Black Bear to me. I would like a better look before a shot was made, I don't really see a hump, the nose looks straight, the ears seem large and high on the head and I can see the tan muzzle of a Black Bear.

So I would call that a Cinnamon Black Bear.

Steve

[Akres]

That looks like a TOAD of a Cinnamon Black Bear to me. I would like a better look before a shot was made, I don't really see a hump, the nose looks straight, the ears seem large and high on the head and I can see the tan muzzle of a Black Bear.

So I would call that a Cinnamon Black Bear.

Steve

Agree on all aspects.

[muskeg]

It's a Cinnamon but many people think it's a Brown Bear ...

I have seen several over the years that I could not ID as a Hog Cinnamon or a small Brown Bear.